It's not my creation, it was delivered by a bank for a test. Thanks for your suggestions, but if there are no standard ftp commands I refuse to work with that file. Anyway, I tested your way and it almost worked, Unfortunately there are packed fields in the records containing x'15' which are not a line end.
Thanks, Werner Von: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> An: [email protected], Datum: 08.09.2014 15:13 Betreff: Re: FTP of EBCDIC file Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:43:16 +0200, Werner Kuehnel wrote: >I have a file on a WIN server with variable data records in EBCDIC and the >correct end-of-line marker of x'0D25'. In the end I need a file with >LRECL=582, RECFM=VB. > >When I ftp this file binary with "quote site lrecl=582 recfm=fb" all >records are written contigously in chunks of 582 bytes. A second ftp >(within z/OS) then splits up the records at x'0D25', but additionally at >byte 582, which is wrong when a record flows over into the next record. >All attempts to get the right format failed up to now. > >Does anyone has an idea how to accomplish this? > Eek! How did you get such a file. It may have a correct (according to the standard definition of IBM-1047 and ISO8859-1) line separator of x'0D25', but z/OS prefers the incorrect x'0D15'. Is your binary FTP to a UNIX file or to a legacy data set. I would FTP in binary to a z/OS UNIX file, then use tr(1) to convert every x'25' to x'15' (and perhaps vice-versa), then use a common utility to delete every x'0D at the end of a line'. The file is now a conventional z/OS UNIX file. If I needed a legacy data set, I could pre-allocate the target to FB 582 and use cp(1) to transfer to that. I hate EBCDIC! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
